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It’s a tradition to get drunk at Purim. It’s also known that alcohol at university is basically part of the furniture. So what happens when you mix this festivity with students? Does this create a great combination cocktail of students embracing the Purim story and having a religious experience? Or does it just become a…

The 21st century has transformed us into the selfie taking, Facebook stalking, flappy bird playing citizens that go by the name of ‘human beings’. However, there is NOTHING human about the list above – we’ve become a generation of robotic internet addicts where self-sufficiency has gone down the drain. With the new craze of Tinder,…

To Hillel house, or not to Hillel house, that is the question… Advantages of living in standard university accommodation 1. Open your eyes to new cultures Living with just Jews means being at the very centre of the ‘Jewish bubble’. Whether studying in Leeds or Birmingham or elsewhere, the atmosphere is still equivalent to Stanmore…

Being Jewish is such a diverse term. One could be religious, cultural or even an atheist- it’s that broad. This may be why it is so hard to explain what it means to be Jewish, especially to some students who have never met another Jewish person in their lives. I want to explain that being…